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Zanu-PF sets poll supervising teams
Zanu-PF has put in place teams that will supervise its upcoming provincial elections, while the criteria requiring youths to have served at least four years at district level has been waived for youth...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:24hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PFs provinces endorse President Mnangagwa for 2023
Zanu-PF provinces have endorsed President Mnangagwa as the ruling party's sole presidential candidate for the 2023 harmonised elections, stressing that his desire to uplift the lives of Zimbabweans ha...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutodi set to leave Mashonaland East?
Former Deputy Infomation Minister and Goromonzi West legislator Energy Mutodi is reportedly planning to leave his Mashonaland East base in favour of another Constituency in Masvingo, a reliable source...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 15:16hrs | 6 | by Nicholas Ncube
DCCs to strengthen Zanu-PF?
First Secretary and President of Zanu-PF, Emmerson Mnangagwa has said District Coordinating Committee (DCC) structures are meant to strengthen the party's coordinating systems and provide a useful veh...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF DCC hopefuls submit CVs
ZANU-PF members have been called upon to take the process of electing District Coordinating Committee (DCC) members seriously and ensure that they choose people who will further push the party to pros...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Break-in at Ministry of Health
There was a break-in at the Ministry of Health and Child Care headquarters offices in Harare at the weekend with the perpetrators allegedly gaining entry using the fire-escape routes before ransacking...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa and Harare hospital CEOs fired
The Minister of Health and Childcare Dr Obadiah Moyo is reported to have fired the CEOs of Harare Hospital, Dr Nyasha Masuka and Parirenyatwa Hospital, Thomas Zigora.The pair were report...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 20:05hrs | 19 | by Mandla Ndlovu
New dispensation rejects corruption
The advent of the new dispensation in November 2017 has seen a new impetus in the fight against the scourge of corruption. Right beginning with his inauguration speech on 24 November 2017, President M...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 12:25hrs | 13 | by Bevan Musoko
Zimbabwe grain surplus can last 9 months
ZIMBABWE has a surplus of grain that can last for nine months, the Secretary for Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement, Mr Ringson Chitsiko, has said. He was briefing the P...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:45hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Govt dissolves Natpharm board
Government has dissolved the Natpharm (Pvt) Ltd board and will be setting up a new one soon in line with the Public Entities Corporate Governance Act, Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo ha...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 20:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa will not be distracted by GNU dreamers'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said Zanu-PF had no plans for a Government of National Unity with the opposition and is focused on implementing policies beneficial to Zimbabweans. MDC Alliance l...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stop spreading fake news, Sekeramayi urges nation
Marondera-Hwedza senator Dr Sydney Sekeramayi has urged the nation to stop spreading and listening to fake news. He made the call on Sunday in his closing remarks after a solidarity prayer meeting at ...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns fake prophets
The era of fake prophets who hide behind the name of God to attack the national leadership and extort money from the public has ended, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has said. He said people shou...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Health Minister labelled academic fraud
Zimbabwe's new Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo, is an academic fraud who does not have the qualification he claims to possess, according to the United States embassy.Moyo, who lost to the MDC Al...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 20:48hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks on mbanje production
GOVERNMENT will only legalise production of industrial cannabis and will put in place regulations to control its production, President Mnangagwa has said. He was speaking during a question and...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt budgets $1,5m for free dialysis
Government has set aside $1,5 million to bankroll costs associated with renal treatment following its recent policy on free dialysis in all public health institutions, Health and Child Care Minister D...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ekusileni opening date set
EKUSILENI Medical Centre in Bulawayo will open its doors on 1 January next year as stakeholders are now finalising terms of contracts that will ensure the project gets off the ground.Ekusileni...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents to get water treatment pills
GOVERNMENT says it is providing water treatment pills to every household in Gweru as a matter of urgency to contain the typhoid outbreak, which has so far killed five people in the city. The m...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga launches $1,2bn convention centre in Victoria Falls
GOVERNMENT yesterday launched one of the first major capital projects under the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) with the ground-breaking of a $1,2 billion four-pronged convention centre set to create abo...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Modi donates ambulance
PROMINENT Bulawayo businessman and Zanu-PF aspiring Member of Parliament for Bulawayo South, Raj Modi yesterday donated a state-of-the-art ambulance to the communities of Sizinda and Tshabalala....Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
1 200-bed hospital for Harare
Government is set to build a world class 1 200-bed hospital in Harare as President Mnangagwa's administration pushes to improve the country's primary health care system. In his remarks during ...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 06:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls medicinal cannabis pilot programme
Government is planning to carry out a medicinal cannabis pilot programme following the legalisation for the production of the plant in April this year.The legalisation of the production of mar...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
First ever radiology centre opens in Zimbabwe
The first Diagnostic Radiology and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Centre has been commissioned in Harare and is expected to improve healthcare provision in Zimbabwe as well as save valuable foreign ...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 11:05hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Dr Dumisani Ndlovu opens state of the art radiology centre
The first Diagnostic Radiology and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Centre has been commissioned in Harare and is expected to improve healthcare provision in Zimbabwe as well as save valuable foreign ...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 19:12hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
White City bombing: Are the CIO, ZRP & ZNA united?
Norton MP Temba Mliswa has questioned if the Zimbabwean security is united following the bomb attack at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's White City rally last Saturday."Thoughts to pondor ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Muchinguri loses breast, airlifted for special treatment
MINISTER of Water, Environment and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, who was injured in a bomb blast at White City Stadium has been airlifted to South Africa for reconstruction surgery after ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 08:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tightens close security
After narrowly escaping an assassination attempt in Bulawayo on Saturday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is due to institute a top-to-bottom review of security agencies' protocols after the bombing inci...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bomb: 3 people still critical in ICU
TWO victims of the bomb attack at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo on Saturday have died.The attack saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa escaping unharmed but 49 people who include Vice President Kembo...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
41 people injured in Mnangagwa blast
Forty-one people were injured in a blast at White City Stadium in Bulawayo yesterday afternoon soon after President Mnangagwa addressed a Zanu-PF campaign rally.President Mnangagwa was not inj...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 16:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mixed views on Schweppes sweeteners
SCHWEPPES Zimbabwe Limited has added three artificial sweeteners to the Mazoe concentrated drinks which are feared to cause cancer and brain cell damage among other diseases, if consumed in large quan...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe launches 'HIV prevention' pill
Government last week launched the pre-exposure prophylaxis strategy (PrEP), which is meant to reduce the risk of contracting HIV. Speaking at the "Million Men Circumcised" celebrations a...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:04hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commends American doctors
The power of partnering in worthy causes was demonstrated on Wednesday when President Mnangagwa and First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa hosted a special dinner at State House for American doctors, who ...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dr David Parirenyatwa elected WHO assembly president
HEALTH and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa was yesterday elected the World health Organisation (WHO) 71st Assembly president, a position he will hold until next year.Dr Parirenyatwa ...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
WHO bans hot chips
THE World Health Organisation has banned industrially produced chips and other fatty fried foods from the global food supply to eliminate the risk of non communicable diseases that are killing million...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 foreign investors contracted to operate Ekusileni Hospital
TWO foreign investors have made the final list of companies that will be contracted to open and operate Ekusileni Hospital in Bulawayo.Ekusileni was built in 2001.It was a specialist h...Published: 09 May 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Smoking mbanje/ cannabis remains illegal
The use of cannabis, also known as hemp or mbanje, for recreational purposes is still illegal in Zimbabwe and the thrust for legalising its production is specifically for medicinal and industrial purp...Published: 03 May 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
First Lady committed to fight cancer
The First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa says cancer has become a serious health challenge in the world with Zimbabwe being no exception.Addressing thousands of women at the AFM International Wo...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 15:32hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe legalises production of cannabis
Government has legalised the production of cannabis (mbanje or dagga) for medicinal or scientific purposes.This was announced by Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa in a Gover...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 14:35hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Govt recruits 1 400 nurses
At least 1 400 new registered general nurses have now been employed in public health institutions dotted across the country, since the Government started recruiting last week, Health and Child Care Se...Published: 28 Apr 2018 at 14:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses scored a major victory against Chiwenga
NURSES have scored a major victory with the government hiring a number of unemployed colleagues and reversing dismissal letters of almost 6‚000 others that were fired after downing tools.A f...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter & TimesLive
Fired nurses reapply
The majority of nurses who were handed dismissal letters have reapplied for their jobs.Updating the nation on the nurses strike, Health and Child Care Minister, Dr David Parirenyatwa told repo...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 14:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash from Heaven
AS the wave of prophets continue to engulf Zimbabwe, a man from Gweru has sensationally claimed that he received miracle EcoCash money after a prayer by a Malawian prophet and the sender was ANGEL GAB...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fired nurses in panic mode
NURSES at Harare Hospital were left in panic mode after being fired by the government.A survey conducted by H-Metro showed that a few nurses were back fearing for their jobs but they were just...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 16:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unemployed nurses throng hospitals
Unemployed qualified nurses yesterday thronged central hospitals seeking admission into the public health sector after the Health Services Board invited applications on Wednesday. Government on Tuesda...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga fires all striking Zimbabwe nurses
GOVERNMENT has, with immediate effect, fired all striking nurses after they refused to return to work even though the employer acceded to their demands and availed over $17 million. President Mnangagw...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurses strike a big blow to Zimbabwe
The industrial action by nurses is a big blow to Zimbabwe especially under the so called new Dispensation and above all Independence holiday.So many people countrywide are dying simply because the...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 17:59hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Govt addresses striking nurses' concerns
The government has acknowledged the nurses' grievances as genuine and valid following representations by the nursing staff through the Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA), and the subsequent running me...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 13:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt beg nurses to end strike
Government has exhorted striking nurses to go back to work without any further delay to allow it time to work on their grievances.In a statement yesterday, Health and Child Care Minister Dr Da...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Sex education for schools
Government is finalising a comprehensive sex education policy for primary and secondary schools.This is to stem the problems caused by pupils engaging in early sexual relationships, which incl...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's time in power characterised by public service strikes
Public service strikes have characterised Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa's first five months in power‚ providing a rallying point for the opposition.While nurses have ended their two-...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 11:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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